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Doni Bloomfield

@donibloomfield.bsky.social
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Associate Professor at Fordham Law School

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Doni Bloomfield @donibloomfield.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
And our full working paper on the topic is here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The New Export-Control Equilibrium
<div> <div> Export controls are a central legal tool in the United States’ geopolitical competition with China. U.S. export controls regulate far more than t
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Doni Bloomfield @donibloomfield.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Read the whole piece here: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/why-...
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Why U.S. Technology Controls Keep Faltering, and How to Save Them
Current export controls are the worst of both worlds: Key technology leaks to China, while controls weaken U.S. firms’ incentive to invest.
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Doni Bloomfield @donibloomfield.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
We propose a set of measures -- most centrally a countervailing R&D credit for makers of controlled goods -- to restore a stable export control equilibrium.
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Doni Bloomfield @donibloomfield.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The result is that current export controls are the worst of both worlds: Key technology leaks to China, while controls weaken U.S. firms’ incentive to invest.
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Doni Bloomfield @donibloomfield.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
At the same time, the reality of geopolitical competition with China compels the government to attempt to retain US and allied advantage in key technologies, such as chips.
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Doni Bloomfield @donibloomfield.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
In today's climate, government R&D doesn't make up for the tax that export controls exact on leading technologists, creating constant pressure to roll back stringent controls.
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Doni Bloomfield @donibloomfield.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
During the Cold War, this was reversed. Until 1980, the US government provided the majority of R&D dollars in the country--today, only about 19%
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Doni Bloomfield @donibloomfield.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Why is US export control policy so scattershot--ramping up controls one month, only to scale them back the next? @jeffgordon.bsky.social and I argue in @lawfaremedia.org that the coalition to support controls is unstable: developrs no longer rely on US govt R&D, but many do count on exports
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Doni Bloomfield @donibloomfield.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
And we need US soft power more than ever to confront the biosecurity dangers posed by AI models, synthetic cells, the possibility of mirror life, and more. Full paper is here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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How Science Grantmakers Govern
<div> Science grantmakers govern risk: from the privacy risks of sharing health data to the pandemic risks of modifying viruses. But this reality is obscured i
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Doni Bloomfield @donibloomfield.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Others have persuasively argued that making grantmaking partisan will harm US science. History suggests an additional surprising result. Doing so will crush the connections between NIH and scientists, and erode the NIH's ability to pilot key regulations with expert input
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Doni Bloomfield @donibloomfield.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Drawing on a new working paper, How Science Grantmakers Govern, I argue that the NIH has long used grant conditions, and its close relationships with scientists, to serve as a regulatory first responder, filling in gaps, like clinical ethics & biosafety, where others are absent
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Doni Bloomfield @donibloomfield.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
New from me today in @statnews.com: why the Trump admin's attempt to politicize science grantmaking could not only hurt US science, but also make it harder to tackle pressing risks such as the biosecurity risks posed by AI www.statnews.com/2026/07/21/o...
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How a controversial rule could hurt the NIH’s ability to manage risk
The proposed rule could “weaken the NIH’s benign influence over research risks,” writes Doni Bloomfield.
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Jeff Gordon @jeffgordon.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Just one example from this thread where @interfluidity.com annotates @donibloomfield.bsky.social and my "Law and Economics of Resilience" paper with observations that we should obviously borrow
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Lisa L. Ouellette @patentscholar.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
At @jotwell.bsky.social, I explain why @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social prof @donibloomfield.bsky.social thinks IP scholars should pay more attention to export controls and secrecy orders ip.jotwell.com/government-s...
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Government Suppression of IP - Intellectual Property
Doni Bloomfield, Intellectual Antiproperty: Export Controls and the Transformation of IP (Jan. 13, 2025), available at SSRN.Lisa Larrimore OuelletteIntellectual property laws are government policies t...
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